Anyway, there are three basic outcomes, right?1. Nothing changes. Sega lets Atlus be Atlus and everything is fine in videogameland. (Which would make sense, because its Sega Sammy Holdings that purchased Index, right? Not Sega that bought Atlus?)

2. Sega uses the publisher side of Atlus for the better, allowing more of their own games to be published outside of Japan. Fans rejoice.

3. Sega gets money hungry, guts the company of talent and puts the leftovers to work on sure-sells and mobile games. The last Persona game you'll see is Persona Pachinko, which you won't actually get to see because it will be in Japan and you won't. Please reload your save, re-roll that d20 and hope for a better future.

Sega Sammy is establishing a new subsidiary of Sega Corporation (which is itself a subsidiary of Sega Sammy, got that?) called Sega Dream Holdings which will handle all Index stuff. The transfer takes place November 1.

Okay, now that it's not O'dark-thirty in the morning, I can elaborate on what I'm worried about.

Frankly, I don't see anything bad happening with Atlus of Japan, hell they might use some of the talent to make like a Growlanser/Shining Force hybrid or something, which is all very well and good. No, my problem is in regards to Atlus USA's fate since Sega's been like, really really bad about bothering to localize any of their RPGs as of late (they'll no doubt continue distributing Sonic and stuffs like Vitrua Fighter, provided they still do that). Anyways, since the majority of Atlus' output is RPG based, I suspect one of two things happen A) Sega gets smart for once and actually have Atlus USA localize some of their RPG titles that have otherwise been stranded in Japan as well as letting them continue work on their own stuffs unabated, or B) Sega does the usual and continue to not bother letting any of their RPG content see the light of day outside of Japan despite whatever interests or infrastructure might exist and forces Atlus to shut their USA branch down as a cost saving measure (since without the RPGs what do they localize?).

The only recent PC game from Sega I can even name is PSO2, but that's a MMORPG and those are always kind of PC-centric.

I don't know when they said something like that, but if they decided to focus on pc, couldn't that possibly a good thing?A lot of people are worried about localization possibilities, but if they are targeting pc as a platform, a western steam release sounds like something we would have a greater chance of getting, than a localized vita game. Unless pc is code for browser-based social-bullshit.

Change can always be scary, but Sega picking up atlus is still at least better than noone picking up atlus, so I'm going to hold off on the doom and gloom for now. Perhaps this will be a hange for the better?

"... The Company believes that transfer of Index’s operations to SEGA will create synergies, on thegrounds that the deal will enable the Company to (1) gain access to prominent IPs in the home videogame software, through which the Company can expect to achieve steady flows of revenue..."

Steady flows of revenue = why mess with something that's making money? If I'm not mistaken, Atlus (including the USA branch) was the only profitable Index property.

Eh. At least they can still make decent games despite all the bad decisions they take can as a company.

Besides with a bunch of their older talent still active doing their own thing at PlatinumGames, Tango Gameworks and Comcept there's really not much reason to get mad. Other than being annoyed to pay for DLC I guess.